In many cultures — this photo is from Finland — candles are lit on certain holidays in order to remember the dead. Such remembrance seems to me a fundamentally important thing — an act of piety — although contemporary society doesn’t value or encourage it much (if at all). Click to enlarge. Click again to enlarge further.
This is an absolutely wonderful project, and an extraordinarily useful one for anybody, Mormon or not, seeking to do family-historical research:
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